Through their latest collection Rated: R, Reparto present fear a source of inspiration, exploring existential worries and the most intimate of insecurities, reclaiming vulnerability as an essential part of the label’s identity. This collection delves into the duality between life and death, desire and emptiness, beauty and decay.
Taking aesthetic reference from the Vanitas, a 17th century genre of painting popularised by the Dutch masters, which conveyed ephemeral beauty, the attraction to the superficial, and the certainty of decay, the collection reminds us that all pleasure, power, or perfection is transitory.
Beyond the morbid, Rated: R looks back on adolescence, a time when fears and insecurities begin to shape a person’s identity.
Amongst the characters that make up this collection, appears a number of psychologically determined dispositions from unfounded anxiety, fear of being forgotten, madness, losing oneself, moral conflict, and emptiness attached with social overload.
Upcycling, repurposing second-hand garments and repeated signature fits, all contribute to Reparto’s continued sustainable awareness while simultaneously defining their experimental aesthetic.
For SS26 the brand continues its ongoing collaboration with Fernando Gómez on footwear design and present a new collaboration with jewellery label, Simbolic.
